Quintana, Manuel José, a Spanish lyric and dramatic poet, born in Madrid; was for a time the champion of liberal ideas in politics, which he ceased to advocate before he died; is celebrated as the author of a classic work, being “Lives of Celebrated Spaniards” (1772‒1857).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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